Title: Interview with Eve Roberts - #1

Original format: VHS

Item Id.: spl_ds_eroberts_01_01

Description: This is part 1 of 1 of an interview with Eve Roberts. This interview was conducted by Donald Schmechel in 1988 at the Seattle Repertory Theatre.

Eve Roberts is an actress who performed with several Seattle theater companies. Roberts studied at the Goodman Theater in Chicago and at George Washington University. She joined the Seattle Repertory Theater in 1967 and stayed through the 1990s. She also acted in productions with the Intiman and the ACT Theatre. In addition to her acting work, Roberts taught at the University of Washington’s Drama School and at the University of Southern California. In the interview Roberts discusses her life and career. She talk about her family background which was against acting as a profession, the schools she attended and her acting experiences around the country, focusing on the theaters and role with which she has been associated in Seattle.

This interview is part of the Donald Schmechel Oral History Collection. Don Schmechel, who was a member of the Seattle Public Library Foundation board, began this project with Seattle Public Library in 1984, with the Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) brought on board as a partner in early 1985. Schmechel himself worked to raise the funding for the project, and volunteered his time to manage the project, and to conduct interviews along with a crew of volunteers. Originally titled the Videotaping Historic Figures (VHF) Program, the project interviewed 91 people, with a portion of the interviews entering the collections of the Seattle Public Library and a portion of them going to MOHAI.The interviews conducted with these Seattle civic, business and cultural leaders are valuable first-hand accounts that provide insight into developments taking place in the mid-twentieth century.

Digitization of this videotape material has been made possible in part by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

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